We are pleased to announce that Nina Wakeford (Director of the Incubator
for Critical Inquiry into Technology and Ethnography (INCITE) research
centre in the Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, UK) will
present the keynote address opening this year's conference on Cultural
Attitudes towards Technology and Culture (CATaC'04). Professor Wakeford's
address is entitled "Technology and Mobility at the Margins".

The program for CATaC'04 further includes presenters from 28 countries
focusing on six major themes:
1. Culture: theory and praxis
2. ICTs and intercultural communication
3. ICTs and cultural hybridity
4. Culture and economy
5. Governments and activists in culture, technology and communication
6. Culture, communication, and e-learning
as well as several themed sessions.

The program also includes two panels, each chaired and shaped by
distinguished colleagues:
1. The Multilingual Internet - chairs, Susan Herring and Brenda Danet
2. Utopian Dreams vs. Real-World Conditions: Under what conditions can ICTs
really help worse off communities? - chair, Michel Menou

CATaC'04 will take place 27 June - 1 July 2004, in the "city of the sun" -
Karlstad, Sweden - right after Midsummer celebrations on June 25-26.

For additional information regarding the conference, including complete
program, accommodation, registration, and travel information, please see
the conference website, www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/.

On behalf of our local co-chairs, Malin Sveningsson, Ylva Hard af
Segerstad, and Robert Burnett, we hope you will be able to join us in
Karlstad. Please feel free to address any additional questions to:

>Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:24:13 -0400
>From: Massimo Riva <Massimo_Riva@brown.edu>
>>
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>The final program of the seminar "Online Resources for the
>Humanities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives," which will take place
>here at Brown on May 7 and 8, 2004, Wilson 102, is now available at:
>http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/hcseminar-may04.html >
>In addition to presentations by eleven colleagues from various
>Italian universities, we will also have presentations from Gregory
>Crane (Tufts, Perseus Project), Geoffrey Rockwell (MacMaster,
>Project TAPOR) and Allen Renear (formerly director of our Scholarly
>Technology Group, now at the School of Library and Information
>Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign).
>
>The seminar will be officially "bilingual." We have left ample space
>for discussion at the end of each session, and I look forward to
>your participation. In order to facilitate communication among all
>the partecipants, we will provide abstracts and outlines or copies
>of all the presentations in both Italian and English (the visual
>component of each presentation should also help). In addition, Vika
>Zafrin and I will provide simultaneous translation during the
>discussions, when needed.
>
>I look forward to seeing you at this final event of our Wayland
>Collegium Faculty Seminar on Computing and the Future of the
>Humanities.
>
>And you are all invited to the reception at the Faculty Club, on
>Friday, May 7, at 6 (RSVP, Mona_Delgado@brown.edu).
>
>Best,
>
>Massimo Riva
>
>--
>Massimo Riva,
>Chair, Department of Italian Studies
>Box 1942, Brown University
>Providence, RI 02912
>voice: (401) 863-1561
>fax.: (401) 863-3304
>http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/

This two-week meeting consists of two integrated parts, a summer school
and a workshop, aimed at graduate students and researchers. The themes
for the summer school are proof theory and automated theorem proving,
the workshop is about proof, computation and complexity. As in the
summer schools at TU Dresden in 2002 and 2003 and in the previous
editions of the PCC workshop, people from distinct but communicating
communities will gather in an informal and friendly atmosphere.

We ask for a participation fee of 200 EUR. We request registration
before May 10, 2004; please send an email to
<mailto:PTEvent@ICCL.TU-Dresden.DE>, making sure you include a very
brief bio (5-10 lines) stating your experience, interests, home page (if
available), etc. It will be possible for some students to present their
work: please indicate in your application if you would like to do so and
give us some information about your proposed talk.

We will select applicants in case of excessive demand. A limited number
of grants covering all expenses is available, please indicate in your
application if the only possibility for you to participate is via a
grant. Applications for grants must include an estimate of travel costs
and they should be sent together with the registration. We will provide
assistance in finding an accommodation in Dresden.

Higher education institutions are facing complex issues involved in the
use of campus computer networks, the delivery of scholarly materials to
faculty and students, and securing information disseminated on campus.
This symposium will focus on these and other issues that affect the
delivery of quality, copyrighted content in higher education, including:

- The impact of the rising costs of scholarly materials
- Peer-to-peer file sharing over university networks
- The impact of digital rights management systems
- Current legislation impacting copyright and higher education
- Other provocative topics pertinent to the symposium subject

Nationally recognized experts and scholars will discuss these issues
during the two day program. For more information about speakers and the
symposium agenda please review the following URLs:

Early registration ends *May 10, 2004*. You may register online or you
may register by phone by calling 301-985-7777 or 1-800-283-6832,
extension 7777. For additional information, please call or visit our web
site. Sponsored by the Center for Intellectual Property at the
University of Maryland University College. [Please excuse the inevitable
duplication of this notice.]

>“Here today, gone tomorrow?”
>
>For the researcher of today, the brave new world of information
>communications technology offers a cornucopia of resources unknown to
>earlier generations. But the infrastructure to ensure long-term access and
>preservation is largely absent.
>
>Will the researcher’s works of today be accessible to the next generation?
>
>Please join the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, partner
>organizations, and distinguished international speakers to explore what
>may or may not be the future of your scholarly work.
>
>This session will be held June 2, 2004 at the University of Manitoba, as
>part of the Congress 2004 Research Community Day.